Introduction -- Fox News and "WTF?" -- "Vote different" -- Whose space? -- The accidental empire -- DIY politics -- The tweety effect -- God sent Hitler -- The blog war of 2008 -- "It was like a big giant zit that just popped all over the place" -- "The most unlikely instrument of change" -- Obama, the blogs, and immunity -- Still waiting for the rightroots movement -- Saradise lost -- The Obama nation